Comments on: After injury, fewer seizures in ‘chilled’ brain http://www.futurity.org/health-medicine/after-injury-fewer-seizures-in-%e2%80%98chilled%e2%80%99-brain/ Research news from leading universities Sat, 25 May 2013 21:24:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Frank http://www.futurity.org/health-medicine/after-injury-fewer-seizures-in-%e2%80%98chilled%e2%80%99-brain/comment-page-1/#comment-540242 Frank Mon, 31 Dec 2012 21:29:50 +0000 http://www.futurity.org/?p=253782#comment-540242 "The investigators report that cooling by just 2 degrees Celsius for 5 weeks beginning 3 days after injury virtually abolished the later development of epileptic seizure activity. This effect persisted through the end of the study. The treatment induced no additional pathology or inflammation, and restored neuronal activity depressed by the injury." Wording is confusing, what I think it means is: Cooling by 2 deg C had a lasting effect which began 3 days after the injury and lasted for 5 weeks rather than keeping the head cold for 5 weeks (brain freeze?) “The investigators report that cooling by just 2 degrees Celsius for 5 weeks beginning 3 days after injury virtually abolished the later development of epileptic seizure activity. This effect persisted through the end of the study. The treatment induced no additional pathology or inflammation, and restored neuronal activity depressed by the injury.”

Wording is confusing, what I think it means is:
Cooling by 2 deg C had a lasting effect which began 3 days after the injury and lasted for 5 weeks

rather than keeping the head cold for 5 weeks (brain freeze?)

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